Verizon, every mention
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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:56:41 Ben Gilbert And then Yahoo would sell itself to Verizon for.
- ▶ 2:34:12 David Rosenthal AT&T or Verizon is gonna work with a little rinky dink startup that's valued at like, ten million dollars and has eight employees.
- ▶ 2:53:30 David Rosenthal Verizon, at this point, is getting pummeled by AT&T.
- ▶ 2:53:38 David Rosenthal AT&T isn't just stealing a lot of subscribers from Verizon because of the iPhone.
- ▶ 2:53:57 David Rosenthal Verizon finally decides, like, we gotta change the game here.
- ▶ 2:56:18 David Rosenthal But even more important than the features was the marketing and the muscle that Verizon put behind this.
- ▶ 2:57:20 David Rosenthal So the CMO of Verizon, so Verizon did all of this, said that the campaign was designed to quote, wake up the market and boy did it ever.
- ▶ 2:57:43 David Rosenthal Like, there was just so much pent-up demand for a real smartphone on the Verizon network, plus all the, you know, yeah, this has turn-by-turn navigation, but even, like, put aside whether it was better or not, it just was a real smartphone…
- ▶ 2:58:04 David Rosenthal The bigger thing, though, is that, like, Verizon going all in behind it, even though they would add the iPhone later, it creates sort of this seed of what the Android user base would become today, at least in America, because Verizon went…
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:13:09 Steve Ballmer There was a, the Christmas of blah, blah, blah year, and it was being on time with the stuff we needed for Verizon.
- ▶ 1:13:18 Steve Ballmer There was a Verizon design win, because Verizon by now is really feeling like it's getting its ass kicked.
- ▶ 1:13:38 Steve Ballmer Could have been not, it could have even been oh nine, but Verizon, the emperor had, you know, the empire had to strike back against AT&T and there was a window.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:17:08 Ben Gilbert I think the biggest moment when the door really shut is when Verizon freaked out after the Apple and AT&T deal and said, we need an answer, and they decided that answer was Droid, and they put like a gajillion dollars behind the Droid…
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 1:22:13 Ben Gilbert Uh, and then some of the other- Which Pactel, by the way, would eventually get rolled up into Verizon.